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Posted on August 31, 2019

The 11 Most Annoying Types of Pianists

I LOLed hugely at this. Especially the “show-off”, the “overpassionate” and “too many facial expressions”

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Posted on August 28, 2019

Frank La Rocca: A contemporary composer on the countercultural duty of sacred music

Recently I discovered the contemporary composer Frank LaRocca. From his online bio: Trained as an academic modernist during his degree studies at Yale and University of California, Berkeley, La Rocca…

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Posted on May 6, 2019

Priére, Erik Satie – performed by Reinbert de Leeuw

A while back I featured Reinbert de Leeuw performing Liszt’s 1880 “Via Crucis”, which seems to me at any rate proto-minimalist. Here from 1893 is the most recognised precursor of…

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Posted on April 18, 2019February 14, 2019

Music for #GoodFriday – Liszt’s “Via Crucis”, piano setting played by Reinbert de Leeuw

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Posted on July 14, 2018

Piano minimalism from 1880 – Liszt’s “Via Crucis”, Reinbert de Leeuw

Liszt’s piano setting of his late work Via Crucis (originally for  choir, soloists and organ) has many passages that sound extraordinarily like Satie or other much later exponents of minimalism. Wikipedia…

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Posted on February 6, 2018September 10, 2018

The lost world of Amity Cadet

(edit 22nd August 2018 – readers may also be interested in the careers of Ana Olgica and Enno Aare) The works of the Vietnam-born French composer and pianist Amity Cadet…

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